Much Depends on Beijing

[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.

While the reason being given by the U.S. for its warships being close to Venezuela is the war on drugs, this may be only partly true.

To say the appointment of an official whom Elon Musk had only recently described as 'a snake' is unusual would be to invite scorn for an oxymoron.

The erratic tariff policy pursued by the U.S. president and his administration has so far mainly served to strengthen ties between countries in the Global South and Beijing, and, where relevant, Moscow.